Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Bellevue House

Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Bellevue House

HER Number
8305
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Bellevue House
Place
Low Fell
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
1822, greatly extended and partly engulfed in 1856-7. Ashlar with Welsh slate
roofs of moderate pitch. The south-western corner shows the original two-storey
house with plain wide sash windows and a French door on west front. (A later
conservatory built alongside). The rest of the house is later, of an ornamental
quasi-Jacobean character having coped gables with kneelers and stone chimneys with
hexagonal corniced shafts; and a very irregular outline. On the west front, the
two left bays are of this character, one being a two-storey gabled porch with a
blank shield and inscription LAUS DEO. Tripartite chamfered windows, some with
latticed iron casements. To the north, various projections of one and two storeys
and more windows of different sizes with latticed casements. Raised quoins to all
angles. On east elevation some rubble stonework partly rendered. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425390
Northing
560190
Grid Reference
NZ425390560190
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/54